Nicholas Hoult as Nikola Tesla, Born on This Day 1856 New Film THE CURRENT WAR In Cinemas 26 July

To mark the anniversary of celebrated inventor & futurist Nikola Tesla’s birth on 10th July 1856, an exclusive clip is released today featuring Nicholas Hoult as Tesla, one of the most visionary minds of all time, as he faces off against Benedict Cumberbatch’s Thomas Edison in THE CURRENT WAR.

Fuelled by the intense rivalry between electricity titans Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), THE CURRENT WAR tells the dramatic story of the late 19th century race to light up America and power the world.

THE CURRENT WAR is produced by Timur Bekmambetov (WANTED) for Bazelevs Production and Basil Iwanyk (A STAR IS BORN) for Thunder Road Pictures. The films executive producers include Martin Scorsese (THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE DEPARTED) and Steve Zaillian (SCHINDLER’S LIST, MONEYBALL).

In the late 19th century, Edison, famous, iconoclastic and unwaveringly wed to his direct current system of electricity, begins a battle with publicity-shy industrialist Westinghouse, and his system of alternating current. The rivalry begins in his lab at Menlo Park, New Jersey, and spills onto the country’s front pages into a bitter court case. The two struggle via fair means and foul to win the War of the Currents.

Hostilities boil and lives are lost as the rivalry plays out on a thrilling, world-changing scale. As the two vie for the right to power the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the arrival of an otherworldly Serb inventor called Nikola Tesla may finally tip the balance…

WATCH THE FULL TRAILER HERE:

THE CURRENT WAR will be released in cinemas nationwide by Entertainment Film Distributors on 26 July 2019.

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